Strict
WordNet
adjective
(1) Severe and unremitting in making demands
"An exacting instructor"
"A stern disciplinarian"
"Strict standards"
(2) Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
"Rigorous application of the law"
"A strict vegetarian"
(3) Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
(4) Incapable of compromise or flexibility
(5) (of rules) stringently enforced
"Hard-and-fast rules"
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Etymology
From , pp. of ; see stringent, strain.
Adjective
(stricter and strictest are the grammatically correct forms for the comparative and superlative although outside UK 'more strict' and 'most strict' are more often used)
- Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
- Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
- Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
- Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
- Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
- Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
- Severe in discipline.